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Machine learning models have shone in a variety of domains and attracted increasing attention from both the security and the privacy communities. One important yet worrying question is: Will training models under the differential privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuan Zhang , Zhiqi Bu

In recent years, differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing statistics of datasets while limiting the disclosure of private information about the involved individuals. This is achieved by randomly perturbing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Aras Selvi , Huikang Liu , Wolfram Wiesemann

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are vulnerable to information leakage of their training data, which can be highly sensitive, for example in medical imaging. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), such as Differential Privacy (DP), aim…

Assessment of disclosure risk is of paramount importance in the research and applications of data privacy techniques. The concept of differential privacy (DP) formalizes privacy in probabilistic terms and provides a robust concept for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Fang Liu

The ubiquity of distributed machine learning (ML) in sensitive public domain applications calls for algorithms that protect data privacy, while being robust to faults and adversarial behaviors. Although privacy and robustness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , John Stephan

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Differential privacy (DP) is a gold-standard concept of measuring and guaranteeing privacy in data analysis. It is well-known that the cost of adding DP to deep learning model is its accuracy. However, it remains unclear how it affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

The conventional approach in differential privacy (DP) literature formulates the privacy-utility trade-off with a "privacy-first" perspective: for a predetermined level of privacy, a certain utility is achievable. However, practitioners…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Alexander Knop , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Chiyuan Zhang

Regulatory frameworks such as GDPR increasingly require that ML predictions be accompanied by post-hoc explanations, even when raw data and trained models cannot be released. Differential privacy (DP) is the standard mitigation for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rishi Raj Sahoo , Jyotirmaya Shivottam , Subhankar Mishra

This short note highlights some links between two lines of research within the emerging topic of trustworthy machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial examples. By abstracting the definitions of both notions, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Rafael Pinot , Florian Yger , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Jamal Atif

Differential privacy is a de facto privacy framework that has seen adoption in practice via a number of mature software platforms. Implementation of differentially private (DP) mechanisms has to be done carefully to ensure end-to-end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jiankai Jin , Eleanor McMurtry , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Olga Ohrimenko

Differential Privacy (DP) provides tight upper bounds on the capabilities of optimal adversaries, but such adversaries are rarely encountered in practice. Under the hypothesis testing/membership inference interpretation of DP, we examine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Georgios Kaissis , Alexander Ziller , Stefan Kolek Martinez de Azagra , Daniel Rueckert

The traditional notion of generalization---i.e., learning a hypothesis whose empirical error is close to its true error---is surprisingly brittle. As has recently been noted in [DFH+15b], even if several algorithms have this guarantee in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Rachel Cummings , Katrina Ligett , Kobbi Nissim , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In this paper, we provide two views of constrained differential private (DP) mechanisms. The first one is as belief revision. A constrained DP mechanism is obtained by standard probabilistic conditioning, and hence can be naturally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Likang Liu , Keke Sun , Chunlai Zhou , Yuan Feng

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Differential privacy mechanisms that also make reconstruction of the data impossible come at a cost - a decrease in utility. In this paper, we tackle this problem by designing a private data release mechanism that makes reconstruction of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Jasjeet Dhaliwal , Geoffrey So , Aleatha Parker-Wood , Melanie Beck

The growing complexity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to the adoption of Split Inference (SI), a collaborative paradigm that partitions computation between edge devices and the cloud to reduce latency and protect user privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yixiang Qiu , Yanhan Liu , Hongyao Yu , Hao Fang , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

Collaborative inference has recently emerged as an attractive framework for applying deep learning to Internet of Things (IoT) applications by splitting a DNN model into several subpart models among resource-constrained IoT devices and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jihyeon Ryu , Yifeng Zheng , Yansong Gao , Sharif Abuadbba , Junyaup Kim , Dongho Won , Surya Nepal , Hyoungshick Kim , Cong Wang

Differential privacy (DP) has become a rigorous central concept for privacy protection in the past decade. We use Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) in gauging the level of privacy protection for releasing statistical summaries from data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-01 Minwoo Kim , Jonghyeok Lee , Seung Woo Kwak , Sungkyu Jung